#745: How We Know if Asteroids Will Attack
New asteroids are found every day, and every day we learn that those asteroids don’t have any murderous intentions. But how do we learn that?
#744: Lunar Time
What time is it on the Moon? The Moon orbits the Earth, so it doesn’t fall into a specific time zone. It’s time to introduce Lunar Time.
#743: What Else Can We Learn From Gravitational Waves?
Sure, the masses of merging black holes are nice to know, but what else can we learn from gravitational black holes?
#742: Atmospheric Gravity Waves
Gravity Waves … not gravitational waves … move atmospheres and make pretty clouds.
#741: Technosignatures
Pollution will ultimately give away a society.
#740: Sneaky Stars
If you’re an astronomer you depend on accurate observations of stars, but there’s a problem. Stars are sneaky! Changing in size, brightness, color, they hide their chemistry, their age and even their companions from all but the cleverest observers. Stars explode...
#739: Drones
From little Ingenuity to the future Firefly and all our Earth Science fliers, let’s look at the buzzy scientists. Soon there’ll be a helicopter flying on Titan, but there are many other flying robots that’ll be helping us with all our science needs.
#738: Looking ahead to 2025
What can we hope (or dread) to see in 2025? Today we’re gonna talk about the upcoming space stories for 2025 that we’re looking forward to.
#737: Weird Science Stories in 2024
2024 was a strange year! But, for space and astronomy we had some interesting, revolutionary, unsettling and downright weird stories pop up. Today let’s talk about them.
#736: Gift Guide 2024
It’s time for our Holiday Gift Guide, where we suggest ideas for presents for the space fans in your life! What books are we reading? What games are we playing and what telescopes are we admiring?